Quoting Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joe wrote:
>
> > I can't get lilo to load on my new hard drive;
here's the message I get:
> > [root@blotter /root]# lilo
> > Warning: /dev/hdd1 is not on the first disk
> > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> ...
> > Like I said I'm running RHL7b with lilo-21.4.4-8. I
thought this version
> > of Lilo would not suffer from the 1024 cylinder
limit.
>
> This isn't a cylinder limitation. Most BIOS's don't
provide a method to
> access the drives on the seconday IDE channel. That
is, when lilo loads
> form the MBR, it does not have any IDE drivers. It
must access the disks
> using BIOS calls. If your BIOS does not support
access to /dev/hdd, then
> LILO will not be able to load linux from that drive.
Lilo is warning you
> that it can't determine whether or not the BIOS will
let you do that while
> the system is running. If your BIOS doesn't allow you
to access the
> secondary IDE channel, then move your secondary slave
(hdd) to the primary
> slave position (hdb).
I was able to install at hdc drive and install lilo at
mbr, my cdrom is hdb.
noelt.
>
> MSG
>
>
>
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